cannoneer
English
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edit- IPA(key): /ˌkænəˈnɪɚ/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -ɪə(ɹ)
Noun
editcannoneer (plural cannoneers)
- (military) A person who tends and operates a piece of artillery, especially a cannon.
- Luckily, the cannoneer was only mildly injured when his cannon malfunctioned.
- 1908, James Ryder Randall, “Pelham”, in Maryland, my Maryland, and other poems, Baltimore, Md., New York: John Murphy Company, page 20:
- Just as the Spring came laughing through the strife,
With all its gorgeous cheer;
In the bright April of historic life,
Fell the great cannoneer.
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editperson who operates a piece of artillery, especially a cannon
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